Our Keeping Bay Projects Moving! WORKSHOP SERIES 2010 concluded with Workshop 3: Wednesday, November 17 – Sea Level Change Adaptation Strategies: Innovations for the Bay’s Future. It was another in-depth look at what’s been happening at the local, regional, and state levels in shoreline vulnerability assessments, risk management decision-making tools, and the BCDC Bay Plan Amendments on Climate Change process.
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WORKSHOP 3 DETAILS
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Place:
URS Corporation
When:
Wednesday, November 17
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Workshop Goals
1. Update on local and regional activities addressing sea level change since BPC’s April, 2010 Annual Decisionmakers Conference |
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Workshop Overview (8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m.) Welcome and setting the stage: Ellen Joslin Johnck, Executive Director, Bay Planning Coalition, and Louis Armstrong, Vice President and Manager, URS Corporation |
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Panel 1 (8:35 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.)
Local and Regional Activities; BCDC Bay Plan Amendments on Climate Change Kristina Lawson, Land Use & Environmental Shareholder, Miller Starr Regalia—Moderator Abe Doherty, Project Specialist, California Ocean Protection Council, California State Coastal Conservancy—California’s Climate Change Action Team Will Travis, Executive Director, BCDC—BCDC’s Bay Plan Amendments Joan Lundstrom, Mayor, City of Larkspur |
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Panel 2 (9:05 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)
Adaptation Management Strategies Dilip Trivedi, Supervisory Engineer, Moffatt & Nichol—Moderator Erik Pearson, Senior Planner, City of Hayward—Hayward shoreline study Steven Messner, Principal, ENVIRON Corp.—Case study Craig Conner, Program Manager, Flood Risk Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—Scenario: Planning in the Delta Peggy Lobnitz, President, Pika Environmental LLC—Decision-making tools, Port of LA and other Len Cardoza, Senior Technical Advisor, Weston Solutions—South Bay Shoreline Study |
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Panel 3 (11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Feedback and Perspectives from Business and Local Government Tara Castro Narayanan, Litigation Shareholder, Miller Starr Regalia—Moderator Armin Munévar, CH2M HILL—Case study presentation Speaker TBA, Oakland Airport Sean Marciniak, Associate, Miller Starr Regalia—Insurance issues |
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Background information:
It’s been six months since BPC’s Annual San Francisco Bay Decisionmakers Conference, “Climate Change 3.0: Policies and Decisions for a Changing Landscape.” At that conference, we took an in-depth look at both carbon management and sea level change as faces of climate change caused by global warming. We agreed we must become more engaged in developing innovative ideas and strategic solutions in both areas. On sea level change, we have since been very involved in the BCDC Climate Change Bay Plan amendment process and tracking, coordinating and developing policy and guidance for shoreline facility protection and land use planning. |
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